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type: "Bill"
title: "Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship Program Funding"
description: "Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship Program Funding; Revises requirements for uniform minimum standards & policies governing apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs & agreements to include requirements for partnerships between local educational agencies & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; revises required date for specified report on apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; requires DOE to develop standard model contract template for local educational agencies & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; provides requirements for local educational agencies & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs that enter into partnership agreements; requires DOE to develop apprenticeship funding transparency tool; provides requirements for District Workforce Education Funding Steering Committee meetings; provides requirements for certain workpapers; authorizes such meetings to be held using communications media technology."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 681"
citation: "Florida HB 681 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["labor"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2025-139"
primary_sponsors: ["Melo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0917d4b7-6d9b-4088-8822-b8b71d8be356"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/681/ByCategory"
source_hash: "106dd3b38c1fbc231e59a058ad4af5a0a30dcede4e95cab30de30d740d104fdf"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---
# Florida HB 681 (2025) — Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship Program Funding
Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship Program Funding; Revises requirements for uniform minimum standards & policies governing apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs & agreements to include requirements for partnerships between local educational agencies & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; revises required date for specified report on apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; requires DOE to develop standard model contract template for local educational agencies & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; provides requirements for local educational agencies & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs that enter into partnership agreements; requires DOE to develop apprenticeship funding transparency tool; provides requirements for District Workforce Education Funding Steering Committee meetings; provides requirements for certain workpapers; authorizes such meetings to be held using communications media technology.
**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2025-139.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **H 681 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/681/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 681 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/681/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 681 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/681/BillText/er/PDF)
## Votes
- Passage, Third Reading — **1170** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Careers & Workforce Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Melo — primary (person)
- Bankson — cosponsor (person)
- Barnaby — cosponsor (person)
- Benarroch — cosponsor (person)
- Edmonds — cosponsor (person)
- Gonzalez Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Kendall — cosponsor (person)
- López, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Overdorf — cosponsor (person)
- Rizo — cosponsor (person)
- Salzman — cosponsor (person)
- Trabulsy — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-18** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Higher Education Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Now in Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
- **2025-03-04** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version) `filing, reading-1`
- **2025-03-21** PCS added to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-03-25** Favorable with CS by Careers & Workforce Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Reported out of Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
- **2025-03-25** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a) `deferral`
- **2025-03-25** CS Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-26** Referred to Higher Education Budget Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Referred to Education & Employment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Now in Higher Education Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-03-26** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1) `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** Added to Higher Education Budget Subcommittee agenda
- **2025-04-01** Favorable by Higher Education Budget Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Reported out of Higher Education Budget Subcommittee
- **2025-04-01** Now in Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-04** Added to Education & Employment Committee agenda
- **2025-04-08** Favorable by Education & Employment Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Reported out of Education & Employment Committee
- **2025-04-08** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/16/2025)
- **2025-04-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Placed on 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** CS passed; YEAS 117, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-16** In Messages
- **2025-04-16** Referred to Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Received `enrolled`
- **2025-04-24** Withdrawn from Fiscal Policy `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-24** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2025-04-24** Substituted for CS/SB 1458
- **2025-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2025-04-24** In Messages
- **2025-04-24** Ordered enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-06-12** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-13** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-16** Chapter No. 2025-139
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0917d4b7-6d9b-4088-8822-b8b71d8be356`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).